What do you mean, more aesthetically obvious, Dan? Do you own a Japanese saw? If you did, you’d know they even attempt to make the handles traditionally beautiful, according to their own standards. The cut, though, is unbelievable by anyone’s standards – a fraction of the effort and waste.

@Jel – I didn’t say “beautiful” for a reason. If a Japanese saw were shown sticking out the ground in the same manner as this one, it would look more like a pole sticking out the ground than anything else. Japanese saws look very nice, but the handle of this giant saw is starkly different from the Japanese saw, which presumably everyone in Tokyo would be familiar with. This one isn’t as familiar, one might guess, since it’s not a traditional Japanese saw. So it’s more a question of being daring and different and presenting to the public an unfamiliar object in a familiar setting than a question of what’s prettier.

Claes Oldenburg also made an “Inverted Q” representing the rubber industry in Akron, OH, and is on display in the Akron Art Museum. He also made the infamous “Free Stamp” which is on display in downtown Cleveland, OH.

If you do a search for Inverted Q, you will most likely only find results for the soft one. The Akron Art Museum has the hard one, made out of concrete.

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